US to Sell Off Entire Northeast Gasoline
Supply Reserve
Posted By: Harlowe, 3/4/2024 3:40:07 PM
The sale of the Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve is among the provisions intended to raise funds in one of six bills setting out appropriations for some federal departments this year after Congress narrowly avoided another shutdown last week. [Snip] "Upon the complete of such sale, the Secretary [of Energy] shall carry out the closure of the Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve," the bill states, and "may not establish any new regional petroleum product reserve unless funding of the proposed regional petroleum product reserve is explicitly requested in advance in an annual budget."
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According to a May 2022 Government Accountability Office report, the reserves in the northeast contain less than two days of consumption whereas “the United States’ total strategic reserves number over 360 million barrels.”